If you’re looking to get started with data scraping, there’s no better place to start than with Flipkart. Flipkart is India’s largest e-commerce site, and as such, it has a ton of data that can be very useful for businesses of all sizes. But how do you get that data?
The first step is to understand how Flipkart’s data is structured. Flipkart uses a combination of HTML and JavaScript to render its pages, which means that the data you’re looking for is likely going to be in the form of a JSON object. Fortunately, there are a number of tools that can help you extract data from JSON objects – one of the most popular is UiPath.
UiPath is a web automation tool that can be used for data scraping. It has a number of features that make it well-suited for this task, including the ability to extract data from multiple pages at once and the ability to handle pagination automatically.
Once you’ve installed UiPath, the next step is to create a new project. You’ll need to specify the URL of the Flipkart page that you want to scrape – the home page will do for this example. UiPath will then launch a web browser and load the page.
Next, you’ll need to tell UiPath what type of data you want to scrape. In this case, we’re interested in extracting information about products – specifically, the product name, price, and image URL. To do this, we’ll use UiPath’s “Extract Structured Data” activity.
This activity will open up a new window that allows us to specify the type of data we want to extract. In the “Data Type” drop-down menu, select “Products”. Then, in the “Products” section below, select “Name”, “Price”, and “Image URL” from the list of available fields. Finally, click “OK” to close the window and return to the main UiPath interface.
The next step is to tell UiPath where on the page our desired data is located. In this case, it’s located in the HTML code between two specific tags:
